A18078:882
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.
printed by John Stroud?, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The reply unto the section in the. 146. 147. 148. pages.
The reply vnto the section in the. 146. 147. 148. pages.
Sed etiam quodam in loco facetus esse voluisti, Deus bone, quam te illud non decet.
Here M. Doctor was disposed to make him self and his reader merry / but it is with the bagpipe or country mirth / not with the Harp or Lute / which the learned were wont to handle. For he hath packed up together the old tale of the curst wife / and of the thief that toke away the priests purse / very familiar & homely gear: It might peradventure make M. Doctor hop about the house / but the learned & the wise can not dance by this instrument. It pleaseth M. Doctor to compare those which be put out of their livings without just cause / to heretics / curst wives / and to thieves / but all men do understand how rightly. ⟨p. 195⟩What his troubles be within / and in his conscience / the Lord God and he knoweth best / but as for the outward persecution which he suffereth / it is not such / as he need thus to stoop or to groan / and to blow underneath it / as though he had some great burden upon his shoulders. And if he complain of the persecution of the tong / to let pass his immoderate heat of speech / which he useth with those that he hath to do with all / the tong which is more intemperate then his is in all his book / shall hardly be found. And although it be unreasonable enough / that he should not give men leave to complain of their troubles / when he glorieth in troubling them / yet that of all is most untollerable / that besides the injury which he doth them / he is angry ye they will not lay hands of them selves by casting them selves out of their livings / or ever they be cast out by him. Tully maketh mention of one C. Fimbria / which when he had caused Q. Scelova a singular in ā to be wounded / & saw that he dyed not of it / convented him before the judges / & being asked what he had to accuse him of / answered / for that he did not suffer the whole weapon wherewith he was stricken / to enter into his body: even so M. Doctor contenteth not him self only to do injuries unto men / but accuseth them also / that they will not do it unto them selves / or that they would not willingly suffer his weapons enter so far as he would have them. What conscience is there that bindeth a man to depart from his living / in that place where he liketh not of all the orders which are there used?